VIENNA — “I’d rather be a cyborg than a goddess,” the American scholar Donna Haraway wrote in her influential 1985 essay “Cyborg Manifesto.” Her idea that a cyborgian identity holds out a promise of a ...

Disaster victims trapped beneath the rubble of a collapsed building or mine may one day be rescued by a tiny and unlikely savior: a beetle with a backpack. Researchers have made major strides in ...

It’s a different kind of “Help” by the Beetles. Between bomb-detecting rats and medical-grade maggots, it’s clear that one person’s pest is another’s savior. The latest member of this unlikely league ...

*(CNN) — The patient is submerged in an ice bath as an anesthetic for the impending surgery. When sufficient numbness is achieved, University of Queensland student Lachlan Fitzgerald begins the ...

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Implantable memory prosthetics could be the first in a wave of cyborg devices available for the enhancement of the human brain. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

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